CECCOTTI COLLEZIONI'S ORIENTAL TEAHOUSEINSPIRED COLLECTION, IN COLLABORATION WITH POLTRONA FRAU, POSES OBJECTS AS DAILY RITUALS.

The way we spend our days becomes the way we spend our lives. This year, at the Milan Design Week, a collection called Rituals Stories of Gestures was presented by Poltrona Frau. Prominently featured was Ceccotti Collezioni's 2025 line of furnishings conceived for a tea-house. For inspiration, French designer Christophe Pillet turns to the mundane yet profound beauty of the rhythmic everyday and, specifically, the ritualistic symbolism and intentional slowing down of the Oriental tea ceremony.

- ALISHA LAD

With the Teahouse collection, Pillet brings a cabinet designed perfectly for a tearoom to the more accessible context of a dining lounge, lending a greater spectrum of function to the adaptable object. The collection also comprises a low and narrow table that encourages ease of arm movement, chairs that encourage a relaxed seating posture and a console with refined flap doors concealing dr